MOST NOTEWORTHY:

• Piper downgraded shares of Corinthian Colleges (NASDAQ: COCO) to Neutral from Buy as they expect the company to face difficulty maintaining Title IV lending at its high default rate schools.
  
• Jefferies downgraded shares of MSC Industrial (NYSE: MSM) to Hold from Buy on valuation, as there is not enough upside to their $50 target to maintain a Buy rating
  
• Credit Suisse lowered HBOS Plc (OTC: HBOOY) to Underperform from Neutral to reflect the weakening housing and mortgage environment.

OTHER DOWNGRADES:

• Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) was cut to Market Perform from Outperform at Bernstein.
  
• B. Riley lowered Iomega (NYSE: IOM) to Neutral from Buy.
  
• Goldman downgraded Bare Escentuals (NASDAQ: BARE) and Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) to Neutral from Buy and Kimberly-Clark Corp. (NYSE: KMB) to Sell from Neutral.

Analyst downgrades: Corinthian Colleges, MSC Industrial, HBOS Plc originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

MOST NOTEWORTHY:

• Friedman Billings upgraded Teva Pharmaceutical (NASDAQ: TEVA) to Outperform from Market Perform following Teva's better-than-expected Q3 report and guidance.
  
• Oppenheimer upgraded shares of Novavax (NASDAQ: NVAX) to Buy from Neutral based on positive expectations for Ph I/IIa pandemic influenza data, the start of clinical trials for seasonal influenza, and expected announcement of a vaccine product candidate in Q4.
  
• Corinthian Colleges (NASDAQ: COCO) was upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Merrill following its better-than-expected Q1 report and guidance.
  
• Citigroup upgraded of Fair Isaac (NYSE: FIC) to Buy from Hold shares to reflect the company's strong Q4 results and improved outlook.
  
• Tenneco (NYSE: TEN) was raised to Outperform from Market Perform at Wachovia based on valuation and revenue opportunities in commercial truck market.

• Energizer Holdings (NYSE: ENR) was upgraded at Bear Stearns to Peer Perform from Underperform.
  
• Key Banc upgraded Post Properties (NYSE: PPS) to Hold from Underweight.
  
• Morgan Stanley upgraded MetroPCS (NYSE: PCS) to Overweight from Equal Weight.
  
• William Blair upgraded LECG Corporation (NASDAQ: XPRT) to Market Perform from Underperform.

Analyst upgrades: TEVA, NVAX, COCO, FIC and TEN originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

MOST NOTEWORTHY:

• Baird believes Heelys (NYSE: HLYS) is poised to report strong results through FY07, which is not reflected in current valuation, and started shares with an Outperform rating and $47 target.

• JMP Securities believes a growing number of consumers will opt to acquire books and physical CD audio books digitally over the internet and started shares of Audible (NASDAQ: ADBL) with an Outperform rating and $12.50 target.

• Caris believes Response Genetics' (NASDAQ: RGDX) diagnostics opportunity may represent a significant long-term growth driver and initiated shares with a Buy rating and $7.50 target...

• JP Morgan initiated DeVry (NYSE: DV), Corinthian Colleges (NASDAQ: COCO) and Strayer Education (NASDAQ: STRA) with Overweight ratings, ITT Educational Service (NYSE: ESI), Apollo Group (NASDAQ: APOL) and Career Education (NASDAQ: CECO) with Neutral ratings and Universal Technical Institute (NYSE: UTI) with an Underweight rating.

Analyst initiations 7-16-07: CECO, COCO, HLYS and UTI originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

MOST NOTEWORTHY:

• UBS upgraded shares of Weyerhaeuser Co (NYSE: WY) to Neutral from Reduce citing the stock's recent weakness.

• Morgan Stanley upgraded shares of Jackson Hewitt Tax Service (NYSE: JTX) to Equal Weight from Underweight on valuation as the firm believes yesterday's sell-off was overdone.

• Hewlett-Packard Co (NYSE: HPQ) was upgraded to buy from Neutral at American Technology on valuation.

• Coldwater Creek (NASDAQ: CWTR) was upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Bank of America based on the company's favorable risk/reward.

• BB&T upgraded shares of Pacer International, Inc (NASDAQ: PACR) to Buy from Hold citing the company's operational changes and new $100M shares' repurchase.

• Goldman upgraded Spherion Corp (NYSE: SFN) to Neutral from Sell.

• SkyWest, Inc (NASDAQ: SKYW) was upgraded to Neutral from Underweight at Prudential.

• Bear Stearns upgraded shares of Sonic Corp (NASDAQ: SONC) to Outperform from Peer Perform on expectations of an acceleration in partner drive-in same store sales and system wide unit expansion.

• Citigroup upgraded Corinthian Colleges, Inc (NASDAQ: COCO) to Buy from Hold after a company visit as the firm believes expectations are finally low enough and recent initiatives are taking hold. Further, Citigroup believes takeover speculation will limit downside as their analysis suggests an LBO could work.

Analyst upgrades 4-04-07: Hewlett-Packard & Coldwater Creek upgraded today originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Apollo Group, other education stocks may have bottomed originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.